THE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

ghostlike

/gohst/US // goʊst //UK // (ɡəʊst) //

幽灵般的,像鬼一样,幽灵般,像幽灵一样

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- : a mere shadow or semblance; a trace: He's a ghost of his former self.
- : a remote possibility: He hasn't a ghost of a chance.
- : a spiritual being.
- : the principle of life; soul; spirit.
- : Informal. ghostwriter.
- : a secondary image, especially one appearing on a television screen as a white shadow, caused by poor or double reception or by a defect in the receiver.
- : Also called ghost im·age [gohst-im-ij] /ˈgoʊst ˌɪm ɪdʒ/ .Photography. a faint secondary or out-of-focus image in a photographic print or negative resulting from reflections within the camera lens.
- : an oral word game in which each player in rotation adds a letter to those supplied by preceding players, the object being to avoid ending a word.
- : Optics. a series of false spectral lines produced by a diffraction grating with unevenly spaced lines.
- : Metalworking. a streak appearing on a freshly machined piece of steel containing impurities.
- : a red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
- : a fictitious employee, business, etc., fabricated especially for the purpose of manipulating funds or avoiding taxes: Investigation showed a payroll full of ghosts.

v.有主动词 verb

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- : to ghostwrite.
- : to haunt.
- : Engraving. to lighten the background of before engraving.
- : Informal. to suddenly end all contact with without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:The guy I’ve been dating ghosted me.to leave suddenly without saying goodbye:My friend ghosted my birthday party.
- : Digital Technology. to remove from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster.

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to ghostwrite.
- : to go about or move like a ghost.
- : to move when there is no perceptible wind.
- : to pay people for work not performed, especially as a way of manipulating funds.
- : Informal. to suddenly end all contact with a person without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:They dated for a month and then she ghosted.to leave a social event or gathering suddenly without saying goodbye:I'm getting tired so I think I might just ghost.
- : Digital Technology. to remove comments, threads, or other digital content from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster.

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : fabricated for purposes of deception or fraud: We were making contributions to a ghost company.

Phrases

ghost town
Chinaman's (ghost of a) chance
give up the ghost

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.ghastly

Synonyms

abhorrent可恶的,可憎的,可憎,可恶 anemic贫血,贫血症,贫血的,贫穷 appalling骇人听闻,令人震惊,令人震惊的,骇人听闻的 ashen苍白,苍白无力,苍白的,灰色的 awful可怕的,糟糕的,可怕的是,糟糕的是 bloodless无血,无血的,不流血,不流血的 cadaverous尸体的,尸身,尸体,死尸 corpselike兵团式的,兵团式,兵团人,兵团 deadly致命的,致命,死亡的,致命性 deathlike死样,死状,死样的,死状的 deathly死亡的,致命的,死气沉沉,死气沉沉的 dim暗淡,昏暗,昏暗的,暗淡无光 disgusting令人厌恶的,恶心的,令人厌恶,令人厌恶的是 faint微弱的,淡淡的,晕眩的,晕倒的 frightening可怕的,惊心动魄,惊心动魄的,吓人的 frightful可怕的,恐怖的,吓人的,可怕 funereal殡葬,葬礼,墓地,殡仪馆 ghostly可怕的,幽灵般的,幽灵般地,幽灵般 ghoulish恐怖的,食尸鬼,食人族,恐怖的人 grim严峻的,严酷的,严峻,严肃的 grisly狰狞的,狰狞,惨不忍睹,狰狞恐怖 gruesome惨不忍睹,惨不忍睹的,恐怖的,恐怖 haggard憔悴,憔悴的,憔悴的人,憔悴不堪 hideous狰狞,狰狞的,丑陋的,丑陋 horrendous可怕的,骇人听闻的,骇人听闻,可怕 horrible可怕的,可怕的是,可怕,恐怖的 horrid骇人听闻,讨人厌的,讨人厌,骇人听闻的

Examples

How the thin wisps of spray, like so much smoke, shot up through the darkness, white and ghostlike!
A white owl that lived in the ivy that covered the north side of the house floated, ghostlike, through the gathering darkness.
Red lights and green lights on ghostlike shadows dotted the stretch of foggy water.
The same almost ghostlike stillness continued, orders were passed backward and forward in whispers.
In two minutes more the carriage halted again, before a building which looked white and ghostlike through the mist.

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